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EasyDNS has confirmed that a security failure within its own systems allowed a social engineering attacker to briefly seize control of eth.limo, a primary gateway for the Ethereum Name Service.
EasyDNS said the attacker impersonated an eth.limo team member to bypass account recovery protocols and gain control of domain settings. The incident occurred on Friday, when the attacker initiated an account recovery process, obtained authority to modify name server records, and redirected the domain to Cloudflare.
After the DNS hijack was identified, the eth.limo team said it notified the community and prominent figures, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic said DNSSEC was critical in preventing broader impact. Because the attacker did not have the necessary cryptographic signing keys, modern DNS-aware resolvers rejected the forged responses. As a result, users were more likely to see error messages rather than being funneled to malicious sites.
Jeftovic also acknowledged the breach, saying it was the first successful social engineering incident in EasyDNS’s 28-year history.
The eth.limo developers said the safeguards likely reduced the “blast radius” of the hijack. While the service was disrupted, the team reported it is currently unaware of any confirmed user impact or fund losses.
Jeftovic said eth.limo is now being migrated to Domainsure, an enterprise-grade platform that does not offer a manual account recovery mechanism. EasyDNS said this change is intended to close the loophole exploited in the attack and help prevent future social engineering breaches.
The incident follows other infrastructure attacks in the crypto sector. On April 14, CoW Swap lost control of its domain for several hours after a similar social engineering attack against the .fi registry, leading to an estimated $1.2 million loss from affected users.
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